Project: Aperture Photometry from the Stack #154
Description
This is a project to create a notebook to explore how aperture photometry works in the data processing stack. Suggested to me by @bechtol , some questions to be explored are:
- how are the apertures and the aperture corrections defined?
- how are the photometric zeropoints defined/applied?
- how best to extract aperture photometry results from the processing stack?
- how does calibrated aperture photometry from the processing stack compare to external catalogs?
- etc.
The Bosch et al. (2017) HSC paper was suggested as a possible starting point.
At today's (2018-11-02) StackClub session, it was noted that @jeffcarlin might also be working on this, and I should contact him. (@jeffcarlin , let me know if that's the case and what you might want me to focus on! Thanks!)
Data sets to consider include Twinkles and on-sky data (e.g., HSC vs. Gaia), with some preference for on-sky data, at least at first. At today's (2018-11-02) StackClub session, it was suggested that there might already be some notebooks in the Commissioning Team repo that might address this or at least be a good starting point. It was suggested that @jeffcarlin would be a good person to ask (@jeffcarlin : Any suggestions? Thanks!)